Cp Unix command

cp copies files (or, optionally, directories).
Homepage:	http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/cp-invocation.html

Description

cp copies files (or, optionally, directories). The copy is completely independent of the original. You can either copy one file to another, or copy arbitrarily many files to a destination directory.

User Experiences

• My experience with using cp to copy a lot of files (432 millions, 39 TB)